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at every stop i described how the obama administration's comprehensive strategy with africa rests on four pillars which the archbishop just mentioned. for opportunity and development, spurring economic growth. betray and investments. advancing peace and security and strengthening democratic institutions. we are working with your country on all four of these. i have just finished the second strategic dialogue between our countries, during the year many officials of both our governments across many agencies work together on important issues and we meet annually to review progress in our cooperation. let me give you just a few brief highlights that help paint a picture of the deb and breadth of our bilateral relationship. today at the south clinic united states signed a document with south africa that marks of major transition in south africa's continuing fight against hiv aids. south africa will be the first country in africa to plan, managed and pay for more of your own efforts to combat the epidemic. the united states will provide funding and technical support to our program. we brou
at every stop i described how the obama administration's comprehensive strategy with africa rests on four pillars which the archbishop just mentioned. for opportunity and development, spurring economic growth. betray and investments. advancing peace and security and strengthening democratic institutions. we are working with your country on all four of these. i have just finished the second strategic dialogue between our countries, during the year many officials of both our governments across...
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very excited, very high hopes for the obama administration. i myself rhodopes call the with the white house all about how the obama administration could embrace technology to open a real window into the goings on in the west wing and a policy is developed and all that stuff. obviously almost none of this happened. you know, these goals were not by any objective notion reached from the press secretary coming in on day one and treating the reporters just like his predecessor had, trying to fend off questions that were actually genuinely address and try to help explain was going on. from, you know, the a good date is still being, you know, and accessible. so obviously there were some friendly feelings toward these folks at first. still are. norman eisen was a great guy. but here obama, talking about obama having learned from the first four years and no longer negotiating before he goes. is there any thought that the community has learned here and enough -- that they are going to get past off because the crumbs are not enough anymore or are you gu
very excited, very high hopes for the obama administration. i myself rhodopes call the with the white house all about how the obama administration could embrace technology to open a real window into the goings on in the west wing and a policy is developed and all that stuff. obviously almost none of this happened. you know, these goals were not by any objective notion reached from the press secretary coming in on day one and treating the reporters just like his predecessor had, trying to fend...
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obama administration is. there is a clear difference. one attempts to reach out the other attempts to be muscular and strong. >> first of all, i apologize. i don't have the specific numbers but in the neighborhood of 50 billion. i tend to agree it is hard to read the actual differences between obama and romney that maybe more of rhetoric than action it would be similar because so much of foreign policy is not at internal domestic politics but who would have thought we would be doing anything? who saw the arab spring coming? vujacic depends on world events. >> when a candidate says something, the record is clear he can be held to that because quite often the candidate is very cautious what he is prepared to say. the suggestions repetition repetition, romney has been reasonably clear he will try to be much more aggressive with respect to iran than obama. making fun getting the hand slapped back but my gut feeling is the reality will dictate one or the other in the same way. i think it is fair to say if romney w
obama administration is. there is a clear difference. one attempts to reach out the other attempts to be muscular and strong. >> first of all, i apologize. i don't have the specific numbers but in the neighborhood of 50 billion. i tend to agree it is hard to read the actual differences between obama and romney that maybe more of rhetoric than action it would be similar because so much of foreign policy is not at internal domestic politics but who would have thought we would be doing...
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so i tend to think of the obama administration when it took office in 2009 as confronting what i call the legacy of the two georges, and the first george, of course, is george w. bush. obama needed to figure out what he was going to do in the wake of the bush presidency. the other george, less obvious, would be george mcgovern. the republicans ever since the george mcgovern campaign of 1972 there's been kind of a republican trope that republicans can fall back on at election time, even when it's not necessarily true that the democrats are weak on defense. and the fact that this is not true shows up over and over again, um, at the time of the persian gulf war, the shock and awe of american high-tech weaponry that we saw at the beginning of that war actually was, um, developed in the late 1970s, um, in the pentagon of jimmy carter under a guy with a high-tech background named william perry. democrats and republicans have both been familiar with issues of the use of force, and it's not a black and white democrats weak on defense issue. and so the other -- the problem in writing this book
so i tend to think of the obama administration when it took office in 2009 as confronting what i call the legacy of the two georges, and the first george, of course, is george w. bush. obama needed to figure out what he was going to do in the wake of the bush presidency. the other george, less obvious, would be george mcgovern. the republicans ever since the george mcgovern campaign of 1972 there's been kind of a republican trope that republicans can fall back on at election time, even when...
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this has been a success of both the bush and the obama administration's. the death of bin laden was the logical conclusion of a campaign that began almost a decade ago of targeting senior leaders. the bush administration got zarqawi and diallo province in iraq in 2006 i think and then bin laden and many of the other leaders have been basically the movement has been decapitated. the problem is that the movement has morphed into a different direction. probably it is nowhere near as dangerous to us now as it was then but as we have seen in yemen in some of these areas these ungoverned areas where they can set up a presence people, and, in that case, from america and they direct its threats not just the local government although that is certainly one of the problems, nor to the shia sect but also to get on airplanes and kill americans here in the homeland. so therefore, there is still a direct threat. it's not the same level as we were on her right after 9/11 but it's still something we have to watch. secondly at the same time, it is a threat to the region as
this has been a success of both the bush and the obama administration's. the death of bin laden was the logical conclusion of a campaign that began almost a decade ago of targeting senior leaders. the bush administration got zarqawi and diallo province in iraq in 2006 i think and then bin laden and many of the other leaders have been basically the movement has been decapitated. the problem is that the movement has morphed into a different direction. probably it is nowhere near as dangerous to...
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the obama administration has a very strong principled commitment and set of policies behind food security, and they put the considerable resources and political capital behind the ambitious food security initiative program called feed the future. so that is a clear policy commitment. in the u.n. context, the administration was confronted with the question of how to respond to resolutions, human rights resolutions on the right to food that were introduced by other countries and that's oftentimes contained provisions and losses that to varying degrees or not things that the united states could fully in place because they were muddy statements on the right poorly framed and other cases there would be considerations of intellectual property that would come into play. you know, sometimes there were legal interpretations with which the administration was not entirely comfortable. at the dilemma would become given the administration's clear policy commitment in terms of food security, the offtakes voting against or even abstaining and declining to support a resolution that inevitably was favored
the obama administration has a very strong principled commitment and set of policies behind food security, and they put the considerable resources and political capital behind the ambitious food security initiative program called feed the future. so that is a clear policy commitment. in the u.n. context, the administration was confronted with the question of how to respond to resolutions, human rights resolutions on the right to food that were introduced by other countries and that's oftentimes...
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. >> guest: well, i think one of the tragedies of the obama administration is that you have a chief executive who is clearly intelligent. he is trained as a constitutional lawyer, and yet he's done so little to not only defend our constitutional rights, but reversed the assaults against constitutional rights that were put into place by the previous administration. obama clearly understands where the centers of power line. he knows that in order to remain in office he must serve the centers of power, but sadly it's opportunism. it's careerism. he has decided to betray the majority of the citizenry in order to accrue for himself. on many levels, most of us are probably clueless. i don't think obama is clueless. and in some ways that makes an even more guilty. >> host: mr. hedges writes in "the death of the liberal class," election obama was more one more trial of illusion of substance but it was a skillful manipulation and betrayal of the public by corporate power elite. we mistook style and ethnicity, and advertising tactic pioneered by calvin klein for progressive politics in genuine change.
. >> guest: well, i think one of the tragedies of the obama administration is that you have a chief executive who is clearly intelligent. he is trained as a constitutional lawyer, and yet he's done so little to not only defend our constitutional rights, but reversed the assaults against constitutional rights that were put into place by the previous administration. obama clearly understands where the centers of power line. he knows that in order to remain in office he must serve the...
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seen, the obama administration pulled out all of its lobbying stops. we lobby people in european union are those of us the congressional contact. but the obama administration successfully lobbied to the point where they could not get in the security council a sufficient majority so that we had to be delivered that was a big victory for israel and an unexpected one. one of the few israel has been able to do in the u.n. [applause] and i will close with this. the fact is that obama's credibility to do that was, in fact, enhanced by the fact that he'd been critical of some elements of this settlement policy. the notion that you're only of individual if you agree with every thing, is not just wrong, it's counterproductive to although many of my friends on the right who now think, now think that you can never criticize the israeli government, i would never people attacking begin, but i think it was precisely because obama articulate the position he did that there was a problem with a sub and that there were too many, it was a mistake in phraseology on 67 i b
seen, the obama administration pulled out all of its lobbying stops. we lobby people in european union are those of us the congressional contact. but the obama administration successfully lobbied to the point where they could not get in the security council a sufficient majority so that we had to be delivered that was a big victory for israel and an unexpected one. one of the few israel has been able to do in the u.n. [applause] and i will close with this. the fact is that obama's credibility...
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in the liberal warren transparency confessions of the freedom of information critical, the obama administration is keeping too much information from the public. john jenkins, legal journalists of see q press details the life of william rehnquist. in the the partisan. professor of temporary islamic studies at oxford university provided detailed accounts of the rise of the arab swing, protests that f
in the liberal warren transparency confessions of the freedom of information critical, the obama administration is keeping too much information from the public. john jenkins, legal journalists of see q press details the life of william rehnquist. in the the partisan. professor of temporary islamic studies at oxford university provided detailed accounts of the rise of the arab swing, protests that f
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the obama administration has requested from congress a new $770 million fund that would be tied to concrete benchmarks for political and economic reform. and i again urge congress to move forward on this priority for. but let me briefly address the 3 parts of our strategy starting with security. the recent riots and lawlessness underscore the challenge of safeguarding public safety in free society and reforming security forces. for decades those forces protected regimes. now there job is to protect citizens, especially against the threat from violent extremists. for some time al qaeda and the islamic maghreb and other terrorist groups have launched attacks and kidnappings from northern mali into neighboring countries. now with the chaos and ethnic conflict allowing these groups to carve out a larger safe-haven, seeking to extend their reach and their network in multiple directions. we are using every tool we can to help our partners fight extremism and meet their security challenges. we recently embedded additional foreign service officers with regional expertise into the u.s. africa comman
the obama administration has requested from congress a new $770 million fund that would be tied to concrete benchmarks for political and economic reform. and i again urge congress to move forward on this priority for. but let me briefly address the 3 parts of our strategy starting with security. the recent riots and lawlessness underscore the challenge of safeguarding public safety in free society and reforming security forces. for decades those forces protected regimes. now there job is to...
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cuba from the obama administration's point of view, i think, there's been important steps that were made with the lifting of restrictions on travel and remittances of cuban-americans making travel more flexible, but from the latin american perspective, there's a sense not much changed, and there's a hope that perhaps in the second term there may be more of a change moving forward. on the issue as well, we'd have to look carefully at the composition of the congress and pieces moving around. some new members of congress, some members of congress with important positions no longer homing them in the next couple of years, some a new senator from texas, a cuban-american. it will be critical in the whole issue, but a lot can be done even without congress. there's no great incentive for the obama administration to do anything dramatic on cuba, and, of course, one expects continued caution really following developments within cuba and see what happens with cuba unless there's further change in reform that would open up space for more engagement and steps forward. timely, on the drug issue,
cuba from the obama administration's point of view, i think, there's been important steps that were made with the lifting of restrictions on travel and remittances of cuban-americans making travel more flexible, but from the latin american perspective, there's a sense not much changed, and there's a hope that perhaps in the second term there may be more of a change moving forward. on the issue as well, we'd have to look carefully at the composition of the congress and pieces moving around. some...
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in the price of politics, bob woodward recounts congress and the obama administration's attempts to restore the u.s. economy over the last 3.5 years. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. .. your thoughts it was not a legitimate war. you say if 9/11 change the world, the iraq war is similar magnitude. why do you say that? >> guest: i say that because the iraq war really led to major divisions within the international community, and i'm not just talking about the u.n. i'm talking about the impact on communities and groups in the middle east and beyond the, and the sense the world has been broken into groups, and some are being targeted or profiled, who felt very strongly about it, and this is about a war on which the international community was divided. -- it was not approved, and personally believed we should have given the weapons inspectors more time to do their work in iran and come back with a report to the security council, for the council that warned saddam, if you do not perform there will be ser
in the price of politics, bob woodward recounts congress and the obama administration's attempts to restore the u.s. economy over the last 3.5 years. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. .. your thoughts it was not a legitimate war. you say if 9/11 change the world, the iraq war is similar magnitude. why do you say that? >> guest: i say that because the iraq war really led to major divisions within...
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so the obama administration starts off with a reset, right? a misspelled reset button as it turns out that the secretary gave to mr. lavrov. and what have we gotten in return for that? the russians have been obstructive on iran. the russians have been obstructive and continue to be obstructive on syria. the russian chief of the general staff threatens a preemptive attack on missile defense sites in europe which by the way woe don't react. russian military doctrine identifies us as their chief opponent and in return president obama's instinct is to say, please tell vladimir i will be more flexible in my second term. >> do you agree with romney's remark, russia is our number one geopolitical -- >> here is what i agree with. i agree russia is on the whole opposed to american interests. that this, that the putin regime, which is an ugly regime, an ugly regime and we don't talk much about its ugliness and it is getting uglier, is not our friend and in many ways hostile to us. and i think it is important to identify to people who are hostile to you.
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is the obama administration's strike the right balance? what about president romney? will he get to the balance better? >> the earlier ones are harder but that is the right question. kissinger comes back and says obama is to hawkish on china but he believes it. i have a view on this but with president romney he will declare china -- which is wrong but obama's said he would close guantanamo. that is not happening. i don't care. when it is david axelrod against karl rove i try to dispense. >> what do you think he will do? >> [inaudible] >> i am rarely aligned with policy. with my personal narrative and -- . [inaudible] but it was pragmatic and smart. leaving that aside, when obama was asked he said al qaeda. [inaudible] i'd think there is much more substance in our relationship. therefore to that extent. [no audio] with those u.s. global lead standards. we really want to. with the interest in iran iran, they don't feel that way. the chinese have a win-win. they don't believe in themselves. [no audio] be honest about what we will do. >> [no audio] we're doing more survei
is the obama administration's strike the right balance? what about president romney? will he get to the balance better? >> the earlier ones are harder but that is the right question. kissinger comes back and says obama is to hawkish on china but he believes it. i have a view on this but with president romney he will declare china -- which is wrong but obama's said he would close guantanamo. that is not happening. i don't care. when it is david axelrod against karl rove i try to dispense....
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administration policy as far as what they're doing in iraq and afghanistan, how they're policies are being pursuit and show a side of the president which indicates that his policies are not that different in many cases from president bushes. also peter the "hunt for bin laden" i'm starting that now. it details the ten-year manhunt for bin laden. which of course, ended very successfully last may when he was killed. and then has been witness for the committee. another book is -- [inaudible] it's berlin 1961 by frederick. i was in college at that time and described all of it to behind the scenes constructing the berlin with a wall. kennedy encounter it's impress interesting to compare the times with what happened today. "a complicated man" a biography, a history of bill clinton. i was mentioned -- i was interviewed for the book, so i guess i'm going to be reading it. i'm in the book. again, i was first served under bill clinton. it's interesting to read that. also for the basic senate book. islamist terrorism, and foreign policy and a biography book of clinton. >>> for more information
administration policy as far as what they're doing in iraq and afghanistan, how they're policies are being pursuit and show a side of the president which indicates that his policies are not that different in many cases from president bushes. also peter the "hunt for bin laden" i'm starting that now. it details the ten-year manhunt for bin laden. which of course, ended very successfully last may when he was killed. and then has been witness for the committee. another book is --...
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. >> the obama administration tried pretty hard in 29, 2010 to come up with alternatives for china. they the one attacked the saudi's and from other suppliers. obviously iraq now is giving up to production with libya. but it is not clear that any of that is really going to be in the chinese that the soil. in fact commit chinese now see a great opportunity because i think they believed the iranians are going to have to sell their oil at a significant discount given the sanctions. and so, a lot of the behind-the-scenes diplomacy and from what happened when who should team was here last week was to try to get the chinese not a backfill and by the oil that the u.s. and the european allies that are cut off so far. and that is going to be the big struggle at the next two months. >> one thought here and i will show that. there are different ways to approach this. one is to grab the alleged prone by the neck and beat on them, which is kind of taken their rhetorical screaming today into it that way. another is to look around and see how many tools you can bear. but things are changing. there
. >> the obama administration tried pretty hard in 29, 2010 to come up with alternatives for china. they the one attacked the saudi's and from other suppliers. obviously iraq now is giving up to production with libya. but it is not clear that any of that is really going to be in the chinese that the soil. in fact commit chinese now see a great opportunity because i think they believed the iranians are going to have to sell their oil at a significant discount given the sanctions. and so, a...
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one is it recognizes a recommendation of the obama administration in terms of the duplication of things and the need for consolidation. that's how we're eventually going to get out of the hole. we've got $130 trillion in unfunded liabilities and $16 trillion in debt. we've ignored it. nothing has happened on what they've recommended. there's been no hearings on what the obama administration recommended in terms of combining some departments at o.m.b. so this is just a step towards trying to meet in the middle what the obama administration has recommended and us actually paying the $200 million in costs over two years with $200 million worth of savings in two years. the bill, as it presently is set up, takes ten years to pay for $200 million. now, you know, we have a $3.7 trillion budget -- or c.r. and we can't find -- you know, it's less than .001%. so this delays the payment for this bill over a period of years, all the way out to 2023. no family gets to operate that way that's broke -- and we are. nobody that's maxed out their credit cards gets to do that, and we'v maxed them out. so
one is it recognizes a recommendation of the obama administration in terms of the duplication of things and the need for consolidation. that's how we're eventually going to get out of the hole. we've got $130 trillion in unfunded liabilities and $16 trillion in debt. we've ignored it. nothing has happened on what they've recommended. there's been no hearings on what the obama administration recommended in terms of combining some departments at o.m.b. so this is just a step towards trying to...
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has not under the bush or obama administration. one of the things i would criticize the obama administration for, and it's not partisan, just a kind of government management thing, is they talk a lot about soft power or hard power opposed to bush who just used hard power. they have not reformed the u.s. government as much as they should have. it's not a very well-run -- i think people not just a well-run agency, but a development agency, and it's money doesn't go as effectively as it could, the public diplomacy diplomacy not as improved as secretary clinton had hoped. i think the one place where i would be with bipartisan letters urges the obama administration to be forward leaning is in syria where it's a complicated situation, but an ally of iran, a terrible government with human rights and democracy, and it's a strategic envy of ours, and we have to be more there to try to effectuate the government, but they have not done much to try to make it happen. >> what would you do? >> some kind of what we do in libya, no-fly zone, no-dr
has not under the bush or obama administration. one of the things i would criticize the obama administration for, and it's not partisan, just a kind of government management thing, is they talk a lot about soft power or hard power opposed to bush who just used hard power. they have not reformed the u.s. government as much as they should have. it's not a very well-run -- i think people not just a well-run agency, but a development agency, and it's money doesn't go as effectively as it could, the...
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brookings was the home before entering the obama administration. looking back i'm grateful i had chance to think there mu -- and have a chance to try out thoughts on the truly outstanding scholars of the issue who and practitioner, i should add who are here such as dan and bruce. it was in the room i spoke a little more than four years on a paper entitled "strategic counterterrorism." i know, i speak for many colleagues in the government when say the brookings is a national treasure, and deserve it is our gratitude for i think bait soggy many of the smarter things our government has done. as we move from the first president obama's terms to his second, it is a fitting time to take stock of our fight against terrorism and violent extremism. of course, to do so, we need remember how things stood when the president took office almost four years ago. at that time, the al qaeda core was a formable and dangerous organization deeply dug to the federally administrated triable areas in pakistan capable of committing the catastrophic attack. yemen, a country
brookings was the home before entering the obama administration. looking back i'm grateful i had chance to think there mu -- and have a chance to try out thoughts on the truly outstanding scholars of the issue who and practitioner, i should add who are here such as dan and bruce. it was in the room i spoke a little more than four years on a paper entitled "strategic counterterrorism." i know, i speak for many colleagues in the government when say the brookings is a national treasure,...
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and this author's thoughts on the obama administration, obamacare, bailouts, and guantÁnamo bay. his book is the corruption chronicles. in global weirdness, we talk about the relentless drought, rising seas and the weather of the future. climate central control analyzes the big questions regarding climate change. .. [applause] >> thanks, thank you. in addition to the surveys, you'll find ipads under all of your seats if you want to look right now. [laughter] the, it's wonderful to be here. it's an honor to be here at town hall, and i love being in seattle to see friends. beautiful city. i started, as you can probably tell, a little bit from that bio, i have written in the past mostly about architecture, about buildings. and the thing about that is when you write about architecture, you can look at the history of the place and the history of the building, and you can talk to the architect, but then most importantly at the end of the process or the middle of the process, you can go and you can see the building, and you can hear what it sounds like, what it smells like and actually
and this author's thoughts on the obama administration, obamacare, bailouts, and guantÁnamo bay. his book is the corruption chronicles. in global weirdness, we talk about the relentless drought, rising seas and the weather of the future. climate central control analyzes the big questions regarding climate change. .. [applause] >> thanks, thank you. in addition to the surveys, you'll find ipads under all of your seats if you want to look right now. [laughter] the, it's wonderful to be...
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no one in tehran or in the region for the obama administration will use force. for example, they legitimately wanted to pursue a policy of engagement. which contributed to a muted response to the screen resolution brand innocent iranians which are beaten arbitrarily arrested. it meant that he was going to work and to define what sanctions will be in place. and the current engagement in the discussions are going nowhere and they are buying time for iran to contribute. as you know for the press reports, on the people here and now, there are banks in nonsense suggestions of the acceptance of the 3.5 or 5% enrichment. that message to tehran is okay, we can wait until they move. they keep moving the red lines. >> that would be unacceptable to romney. >> to be unacceptable. >> would be also be impatient to get the process that made, it will bring to the military option. >> you would create a credible threat. he is not taken it off the table. >> the mixed messages we've had, the president gave the firm's speech at aipac. i've got israel's back. use of force on the tabl
no one in tehran or in the region for the obama administration will use force. for example, they legitimately wanted to pursue a policy of engagement. which contributed to a muted response to the screen resolution brand innocent iranians which are beaten arbitrarily arrested. it meant that he was going to work and to define what sanctions will be in place. and the current engagement in the discussions are going nowhere and they are buying time for iran to contribute. as you know for the press...
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. >> i'm not saying obama wants to impose jihad. >> the goal -- is [inaudible] you said the obama administration has islamist sympathy. >> you're too important for me. i apology. i think you don't like the question. i guess, you know, look, there's a fair question in there someplace. it is this, to say that obama has islamic sympathies is not the saying he's an islamist or he wants to impose here is rei ya. what it is saying that -- i'll make a broader point about the hard left in general, there are many historical instances of leftists and islamists working together. they exist right before our eyes now, and they have gone back more than half a century. that doesn't mean that the two of them agree on everything. they grow on a number of core things. they are both sympathetic to the idea of totalitarian system. it's not the same total yaren system. they disagree on a lot of important things too. they tend to combine with each other when they have a common enemy. but once there isn't an common enemy they fought with each other viciously in history. i don't i have -- i don't see why there's a prob
. >> i'm not saying obama wants to impose jihad. >> the goal -- is [inaudible] you said the obama administration has islamist sympathy. >> you're too important for me. i apology. i think you don't like the question. i guess, you know, look, there's a fair question in there someplace. it is this, to say that obama has islamic sympathies is not the saying he's an islamist or he wants to impose here is rei ya. what it is saying that -- i'll make a broader point about the hard...
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the obama administration was interested but not enthusiastic. i do think that increasingly what will be looked at is the coalitions of the world. .. but you also say that the regions are going to be more on their own. some regions do okay in some regions will be struggling. you see asia is to reach and most likely to ask. that. >> asia and middle east at the regions and most worried about. i realized about that because the great john of leadership does not create a series of globalization because they integrate for a region much more about common rules and chairman don't like the concept arbitrary to them and codify that in the political contacts. this set of norms that folks are voluntarily bharata, it's much more about common and economic commentary. it is much more about asia courses. it's much more informal. but then they look at a place like the middle east or asia. in the middle east be done if one country. with the turks, the egyptians depend that we do. those three countries on the turks support largely secularized middle-class. and euro
the obama administration was interested but not enthusiastic. i do think that increasingly what will be looked at is the coalitions of the world. .. but you also say that the regions are going to be more on their own. some regions do okay in some regions will be struggling. you see asia is to reach and most likely to ask. that. >> asia and middle east at the regions and most worried about. i realized about that because the great john of leadership does not create a series of globalization...
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president obama was re-elected, and the obama administration had a number of, i think, foreign policy and counterterrorism successes in the first administration. obviously, bin laden was killed in the special operations raid. president obama oversaw the drawdown of troops in iran as well as afghanistan and, yet, i think the lasting legacy from the first term of the obama administration may well be what u.s. officials term the yemen model, how it is that the u.s. is going to fight these wars, these wars against non-state actors, groups against al-qaeda in the future, and in many ways, i think, that during the first term of the obama presidency yemen had become the laboratory for this approach. yemen is now a place over the past four years where the u.s. tested out ways in which it could fight al-qaeda. there's a number of approaches and the obama administration moved away from what the bush administration tempted to do with large ground scale invasions of iraq and afghanistan, and i think everybody who spends any time in yemen would agree that any sort of a boots on the ground approach
president obama was re-elected, and the obama administration had a number of, i think, foreign policy and counterterrorism successes in the first administration. obviously, bin laden was killed in the special operations raid. president obama oversaw the drawdown of troops in iran as well as afghanistan and, yet, i think the lasting legacy from the first term of the obama administration may well be what u.s. officials term the yemen model, how it is that the u.s. is going to fight these wars,...
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i wonder what advice he gave to the obama administration receded into the future. >> i just bought a lot about syria appeared quick question. i haven't yet heard any discussion on what the local councils might be doing to track down potential, the actual war crimes. where does that stand as a result of the council? >> the second question first? so the second question, so civil society in general right now in syria was not restrict it to these councils are merging into related areas. people of different professions are organizing themselves according to profession. for example, when i was in istanbul and i shared that she were with me in istanbul. so there is like a conference on the blood of act to this across the borders into turkey. when for example with the council of three judges. they have defected and said were not going to continue decisions made by the assad regime and have organized themselves into the regime of free judges. if you're interested i can connect to. very specifically documents and one of them gave like a speech that was very painful for me to hear explaining ho
i wonder what advice he gave to the obama administration receded into the future. >> i just bought a lot about syria appeared quick question. i haven't yet heard any discussion on what the local councils might be doing to track down potential, the actual war crimes. where does that stand as a result of the council? >> the second question first? so the second question, so civil society in general right now in syria was not restrict it to these councils are merging into related areas....
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administration. it's not been well covered by the media in terms of what his policy was in iraq. i actually learned a lot doing it. during the campaign, president obama talked a lot about the goal and certainly took out the troops here but i discovered in doing the book is actually the administration's own policy object is in iraq, don't object is far beyond the troops and extended to remaking the iraqi government and creating a power-sharing arrangement. it included a failed effort to negotiate an agreement so americans forces could stay in iraq in some numbers. >> failed agreement. >> they try to negotiate when i told a story. having failed, they claim credit for taking the troops out. but initially they did negotiate something to keep a modest number of troops, initially 10,035,004 whole variety of reasons it didn't work out. but he covered the start of the war and the middle of the war in the endgame for the military involvement. >> michael gordon, you covered the entire iraqi war for "the new yo
administration. it's not been well covered by the media in terms of what his policy was in iraq. i actually learned a lot doing it. during the campaign, president obama talked a lot about the goal and certainly took out the troops here but i discovered in doing the book is actually the administration's own policy object is in iraq, don't object is far beyond the troops and extended to remaking the iraqi government and creating a power-sharing arrangement. it included a failed effort to...
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sherrod's critics and the obama administration apologize for their rush to judgment. shirley sherrod was offered another position with the agriculture department which she declined. this is about an hour. .. this is a really special moment for all of us in this room. only in new york for only one night. it if you're here with us at the shong berg, i should let you know straight away if you would like to ask questions, you need to write them down on the card the lady in the white will be going around and take the cards so we can put some input in from the audience at the end. i want to start with -- we had a beautiful conversation on the phone. we a whole -- i know you i know you i know you. in chapter one, this was page six of the book, you talk about when you would as a child drive down the back road georgia and how scary that was. but you write in the book, you say that through this incident in july 2010, that there were more than one way to terrorize somebody based on what happened. can you talk a bit about that? >> well, in those years, it was really scary before
sherrod's critics and the obama administration apologize for their rush to judgment. shirley sherrod was offered another position with the agriculture department which she declined. this is about an hour. .. this is a really special moment for all of us in this room. only in new york for only one night. it if you're here with us at the shong berg, i should let you know straight away if you would like to ask questions, you need to write them down on the card the lady in the white will be going...
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representing the administration at the olympics, first lady michelle obama. she is in london to welcome american athletes as they arrive. she will also attend the opening ceremonies. governor rom of course has a history with the games having run the 2002 salt lake city olympics. join us tomorrow night for a look at his leadership and tenure. that gets underway at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> we'll have more live coverage this afternoon with remarks from former president bill clinton. he is addressing the week-long international aids conference here in washington. live coverage starts at 4:25 eastern. also on c-span today the clare boothe luce policy institute is hosting a seminar on conservative leadership. speakers include former presidential candidate and house speaker newt gingrich. that gets underway at 1:00. that will be on c-span. >> let me begin to open up the discussion by asking it this way. what exactly is the nature of the clash between macarthur and truman? is this, is this a clash over policy? is this a problem of personalities. >> treasury se
representing the administration at the olympics, first lady michelle obama. she is in london to welcome american athletes as they arrive. she will also attend the opening ceremonies. governor rom of course has a history with the games having run the 2002 salt lake city olympics. join us tomorrow night for a look at his leadership and tenure. that gets underway at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> we'll have more live coverage this afternoon with remarks from former president bill clinton....
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my views are the same as the views of the obama administration expressed by secretary clinton. i also want to thank the chairman of the finance committee for helping us work through this process, and particularly to senator coburn, who had some reservations about the non-burma parts of this bill. but i think we've worked those out and are working forward and i think it's an important step in the right direction. the presiding officer: without objection, then, it is so ordered. mr. inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent that the record reflect my remarks without the interruption. the presiding officer: that will be done without objection. mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent i be recognized, again, to continue my remarks for up to 30 minutes. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma is so recognized. mr. inhofe: okay, mr. president, prior to this very significant announcement that was made by both the majority and the minority leaders, i was talking about responding to the speech that was made on the fl
my views are the same as the views of the obama administration expressed by secretary clinton. i also want to thank the chairman of the finance committee for helping us work through this process, and particularly to senator coburn, who had some reservations about the non-burma parts of this bill. but i think we've worked those out and are working forward and i think it's an important step in the right direction. the presiding officer: without objection, then, it is so ordered. mr. inhofe: mr....
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the the new book is a look at the obama administration national security policy with afghanistan and pakistan that killed to let with iran as you would imagine and i think with the spring in china. but mostly, it is an effort to try to explore what is new and different about the business administration versus the bush administration and how do you prepare what is actually happening and the robust than a little busy since the president was inaugurated. >> we will all be waiting for it. >> she start out with a spirit like to ask you a few things. if president obama calls you and your still imac to duty and said, what do i do about iran, what would you tell them? >> how do you spell that? >> were going to start with easy question. >> give us a rundown on where you think things are now and what the situations look like. >> my concern with iran is here to get one of those telephone calls is that we have as a nation for several administrations now on a negotiating diplomatic approach along with delaying strategy to stretch out the timelines and have the opportunity for a diplomatic solutio
the the new book is a look at the obama administration national security policy with afghanistan and pakistan that killed to let with iran as you would imagine and i think with the spring in china. but mostly, it is an effort to try to explore what is new and different about the business administration versus the bush administration and how do you prepare what is actually happening and the robust than a little busy since the president was inaugurated. >> we will all be waiting for it....
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. >> obama administration is imposing sanctions on someone islamist groups until this top leaders. the state department and treasury blacklisted the movement for unity and jihad west africa today especially designated foreign terrorist group which freezes many assets members will have an u.s. jurisdiction, advanced business with them. that look now the situation in mali with the assistant secretary a man did dory testifying on the situation. this is about one hour and 45 minutes. >> i will be joined merriman terribly by my friend and ranking member, senator johnny isakson from georgia and we expect other senators to join but i thought it was timely for us to proceed. i'm grateful for the support of the committee and the hard work of my staff in making possible today the first time we will have a weight has testifying directly from a foreign country, which is the subject of the hearing and i hope that will contribute to an ongoing process and trying to expand the range and scope of the testimony included. today's focus is on mali and as we speak there are three simultaneous crises o
. >> obama administration is imposing sanctions on someone islamist groups until this top leaders. the state department and treasury blacklisted the movement for unity and jihad west africa today especially designated foreign terrorist group which freezes many assets members will have an u.s. jurisdiction, advanced business with them. that look now the situation in mali with the assistant secretary a man did dory testifying on the situation. this is about one hour and 45 minutes. >>...
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i too think the obama administration believes that this is an issue for 2013, not for 2012. i have some fundamental concerns with how they are going about making that assessment. i think the u.s. intelligence community has over learned the lessons of the iraq wmd intelligence debacle, that they are overly cautious in their assessments. i think that this whole notion that the obama administration officials have laid out in the public domain that they are willing to let them essentially get to a nuclear threshold and then just wait for it to make the final political decisions before action would be taken is very dangerous. i don't know the u.s. intelligence community would ever see or know that the supreme leader has given that go ahead and as matt laid out we are getting to the point with iran and the various elements of iran's capabilities where talking has been by some experts accounts a matter of months that it would take if that decision was made. that is just a very dangerous situation to get into regarding our past failures with debian deep programs. the other thing i w
i too think the obama administration believes that this is an issue for 2013, not for 2012. i have some fundamental concerns with how they are going about making that assessment. i think the u.s. intelligence community has over learned the lessons of the iraq wmd intelligence debacle, that they are overly cautious in their assessments. i think that this whole notion that the obama administration officials have laid out in the public domain that they are willing to let them essentially get to a...
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obama administration's priorities in a potential second term. his assist richard muller examines current energy issues in the u.s. and provides an outline for the future in science headlines. look for these titles and book stores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org.? >> how old was she when she: sha killed herself? >> she was 26 years old.r, >> why did she kill herself? suo >> what we know is that she left a suicide note that said that she was distraught.philanderingo that was the immediate cause. >> that was the president's grandfather, stanley dunham's mother? >> yes, she was 26. because of that dramatic event, stanley and his brother ralf moved back with the dunham family. and his great-grandfather, a aracte character named christopher columbus clark, who had gotten the civil war. >> weirded the grandparents meet? >> they met in augusta, which i about 12 or 15 milesa away.r cou in butler county. it is on the way to wichita.itaa that is where madeleine grew upl stanley had been out of high
obama administration's priorities in a potential second term. his assist richard muller examines current energy issues in the u.s. and provides an outline for the future in science headlines. look for these titles and book stores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org.? >> how old was she when she: sha killed herself? >> she was 26 years old.r, >> why did she kill herself? suo >> what we know is that she left a suicide...
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obama administration continue past 2013. >> mr. lugar, do you have a rebuttal? >> i would manage the s.t.a.r.t. treaty on the floor of the senate. thank goodness it passed when it did. because we had no american boots on the ground. the last s.t.a.r.t. treaty had expired during the previous bush administration. very important time when our military as well as civilian personnel back there. i'd like to correct impression that somehow we're sending money to russia that is expunged will. we have full control of what we're doing in disarming the russians there and we need to maintain that. >> go ahead, 30 seconds. >> the very definition of fungible means money can go into account that can go other places. it offsets. all money is fungible. that's a fact of economics. to the broader point of what the s.t.a.r.t. treaty was about, one of the things the obama initially she did to help win republican votes was to say if they would vote for it they would be more money spent to upgrade our nuclear weapon system and affect the obama administra
obama administration continue past 2013. >> mr. lugar, do you have a rebuttal? >> i would manage the s.t.a.r.t. treaty on the floor of the senate. thank goodness it passed when it did. because we had no american boots on the ground. the last s.t.a.r.t. treaty had expired during the previous bush administration. very important time when our military as well as civilian personnel back there. i'd like to correct impression that somehow we're sending money to russia that is expunged...
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that during the obama administration, 4.3 million jobs have been created. now i know we had a bad week when they were talking about only 69,000 jobs that were created. just want to point out that that 69,000 jobs is still 69,000 more jobs that were created during eight years of the bush administration. [applause] okay? and 27 months of straight job -- here's a solution that republicans offered. austerity. we know how well that worked. roger pointed out how well that worked in europe. and it is increasing now talk, not just among republicans, but democrats as well, about the bold simpson plan, or as i like to call the ds plan. -- ds plan. roger is right. i offered my own alternative because i just want to make sure that everyone is clear about what bowles-simpson we did because i do not think people really understand what is in it. among other things, bowles-simpson raise the retirement age for social security from 67 to 69. it got benefit our current social security retirees because it changes the way the cost of living adjustment is calculated. it increase
that during the obama administration, 4.3 million jobs have been created. now i know we had a bad week when they were talking about only 69,000 jobs that were created. just want to point out that that 69,000 jobs is still 69,000 more jobs that were created during eight years of the bush administration. [applause] okay? and 27 months of straight job -- here's a solution that republicans offered. austerity. we know how well that worked. roger pointed out how well that worked in europe. and it is...
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this mail before it entered the obama administration. i am grateful i had to think that the policy issues i would confront and have a chance to try out its on the truly outstanding scholars and cracked tisha mares who are here, such as dan and bruce. as for mr. misspoke when the four years ago when a paper entitled strategic counterterrorism. i know i speak for many of my colleagues in the government when i say brookings is a national treasure and deserves our gratitude for incubating so many smart things that government has done. as they move from the first of president obama stearns to be a fitting time to take stock. of course to do so we understand how the president took office four years ago. at that time, it was a formidable organization with the tribal areas in pakistan incapable of committing a catastrophic attack. yemen, a country where we had largely disengaged had been terrorists are tbd. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula have established itself as the first eight to affiliate with the determination capability of striking the
this mail before it entered the obama administration. i am grateful i had to think that the policy issues i would confront and have a chance to try out its on the truly outstanding scholars and cracked tisha mares who are here, such as dan and bruce. as for mr. misspoke when the four years ago when a paper entitled strategic counterterrorism. i know i speak for many of my colleagues in the government when i say brookings is a national treasure and deserves our gratitude for incubating so many...
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to this day, under the obama administration, your american tax dollars pay for workshops teaching the police and military that islam is an evil religion out to destroy america in which must therefore be destroyed first. workshops go on all the time, well funded by the government, your dollars. again, it's civilization against the is a -- savages. george canyon said making a monolith out of communism was a gross misunderstanding and huge conflicts, for example, between russia and china. because this requires card board figures, american presidents from truman on paid no attention to his advice. a similar thing now exists with respect to islam. only 10% of american muslims are actually religious. for most of them, islam is more of a social thing than anything else. it's like the jews, go to synagogue, talk to people, and eat. you know, even then, few religious muslims are jihads, but when your identity is a negative one, this type of nuance has to be kept out of one's consciousness. americans regard pakistan as a dark and awful place, the country that hid bin laden from the american tro
to this day, under the obama administration, your american tax dollars pay for workshops teaching the police and military that islam is an evil religion out to destroy america in which must therefore be destroyed first. workshops go on all the time, well funded by the government, your dollars. again, it's civilization against the is a -- savages. george canyon said making a monolith out of communism was a gross misunderstanding and huge conflicts, for example, between russia and china. because...
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the obama administration is near a its rhetoric. president obama has said clearly that containment is not policy. this can be very difficult and i don't think he has any interest in that approach even if it comes to the decision that he may need to make sun time after reelection. where i differ with matt is i don't think a limited strike is the theory. and the reason on why has the thing about contain rent is we are overlooking the fact that cafaro is james carville and the regime and the nature of the regime is the problem we are working on right now. it's not just that duties. it's a broader set of dvds and the point of some serious discussions with the current regime in iran but very difficult to make anything seriously if they agree to and believe they could actually trust, given their past deceit about the nuclear dvds. i remind everyone this is a regime that are decades has been killing americans in your salad most directly. most recently the lethal support to militias in iraq and taliban. address long-standing support and has
the obama administration is near a its rhetoric. president obama has said clearly that containment is not policy. this can be very difficult and i don't think he has any interest in that approach even if it comes to the decision that he may need to make sun time after reelection. where i differ with matt is i don't think a limited strike is the theory. and the reason on why has the thing about contain rent is we are overlooking the fact that cafaro is james carville and the regime and the...
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[applause] president obama's administration was the first to develop a comprehensive strategy for the domestic epidemic. the affordable care act which, thank god, the supreme court upheld will provide public facilities -- [applause] the funding that he and secretary sibila is committed this week to close the list is very important, and i want to emphasize something else. in the context of the united states, you all know that when i to policy work around the world, when our foundation does, we used generic drugs. they have made a huge difference . and money can now be used to buy those trucks first because of the people agreed that they should and second because i made an agreement with president bush when he was an office that i would submit all of the madison anywhere in the world to the fda. he said if the fda approved them as effective and appropriate that in the local country could use their money to buy that medicine. [applause] and he kept his word. and that was the beginning of this. i am very, very grateful for that. but that means were these drugs are not available we have to
[applause] president obama's administration was the first to develop a comprehensive strategy for the domestic epidemic. the affordable care act which, thank god, the supreme court upheld will provide public facilities -- [applause] the funding that he and secretary sibila is committed this week to close the list is very important, and i want to emphasize something else. in the context of the united states, you all know that when i to policy work around the world, when our foundation does, we...
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onn belun meneerat muatlywhhe g,nd i wonring gen the plans put out by the obama administration so far, you suggest that they ought to slow down tir pace of consolidation. oueel they areki lter ehin sng cyhtoor dti li a crao o anen um secondly, a specific qestion. the the-quarter percent slowdown you suggest to cut thqursa enw dy onrne a lf a qer jude whe y draw that line between consolidation and supporting growth. >> shall we take a question at a time? okay. thank you fses ofquon hnstonweo tend to -- that i becing almost the bread ate clytoon ran of the economy as a result of, say, the real saig of the fiscal f dha sfi ilrefs oid ed ss. ot fl izn tr t emyndduto marginally positive if at all, but it would also have effects nooued m a tited states. lterpphat dein their policy. there are two ws to have in this multilateral approach. either you look at it because u'ren theecein e o lot bseo o anth pct lterpph ld iotom iv pot iend from a sending end point of view. it's more natural for thie lattm conebo, i in ltewon ev vede coury. the rst question was what is happening on the eurozone, an
onn belun meneerat muatlywhhe g,nd i wonring gen the plans put out by the obama administration so far, you suggest that they ought to slow down tir pace of consolidation. oueel they areki lter ehin sng cyhtoor dti li a crao o anen um secondly, a specific qestion. the the-quarter percent slowdown you suggest to cut thqursa enw dy onrne a lf a qer jude whe y draw that line between consolidation and supporting growth. >> shall we take a question at a time? okay. thank you fses ofquon...
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the aids 2012 conference is now just one month away, as we heard thanks to the obama administration or the first time in more than 20 years. this meeting is taking place in the united states. as americans that should make us proud but it should also inspire the pride as the conference comes to nation's capital at a pivotal moment in our fight against aids. seven months ago, many of you in this room heard secretary clinton declared the historical creating an aids-free generation. less than a month later the president stated that we can not only can win this fight, that we will win this fight. these words from the president and the secretary were based on a series of scientific discoveries primarily funded by the united states which has become game changers over the course of the past year. and because of the science, the world will come together at age 2012 to say that we are turning the tide. that is the theme of the conference. a tie that once overwhelmed the world is now a tide that is united the world. hope is truly taking the place of despair. that we are not going to be wholly suc
the aids 2012 conference is now just one month away, as we heard thanks to the obama administration or the first time in more than 20 years. this meeting is taking place in the united states. as americans that should make us proud but it should also inspire the pride as the conference comes to nation's capital at a pivotal moment in our fight against aids. seven months ago, many of you in this room heard secretary clinton declared the historical creating an aids-free generation. less than a...
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i'm someone who is broadly supportive of the obama administration's reset. it is that good days and bad days, but i think the glass is more half-full and half-empty. and i believe that we should continue to press on u.s.-russia relations and nato russian relations, realizing that we have differences over georgia and that we differences missile defense, but continue to pocket those areas where we have agreement. because if we can build greater trust, if we can get the russians to see that nato means them no harm, then i actually think we will be able to reach agreement on missile defense and perhaps on georgia. i don't want to minimize the difficulties of doing that, i think the outrage two russia is correct and we should push hard on that front. one quick comment on what dr. brzezinski said about conditionality. i don't see the obama's commitment to missile defense as conditional. i think it's conditional in the sense that it is being adapted to the nature of the threat. and that is why there was a revision to begin with, to move toward a sea-based structure
i'm someone who is broadly supportive of the obama administration's reset. it is that good days and bad days, but i think the glass is more half-full and half-empty. and i believe that we should continue to press on u.s.-russia relations and nato russian relations, realizing that we have differences over georgia and that we differences missile defense, but continue to pocket those areas where we have agreement. because if we can build greater trust, if we can get the russians to see that nato...
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yesterday president obama's secretary of the interior, ken salazar, defended the obama administration's failure of an energy policy when testifying about the senate energy and natural resources committee. he said this: we have an energy strategy and a policy that we've been working on from day one. and we believe it continues to show good results. think about that. we have an energy strategy and a policy that have we've been working on from day one. we believe it continues to show good results. i don't know how you can argue that doubling the price for a gallon of gasoline is a good result and literally taking areas out of production in this country that could be yielding energy that would help reduce the dependence we have on foreign sources of energy, drive down the price at the pump and create american jobs is a good result. i don't know how you can argue that the things that have happened here in the, during this administration's time in office have been anything but disastrous for the american people, for american business and for the continued dependence that we have on foreign so
yesterday president obama's secretary of the interior, ken salazar, defended the obama administration's failure of an energy policy when testifying about the senate energy and natural resources committee. he said this: we have an energy strategy and a policy that we've been working on from day one. and we believe it continues to show good results. think about that. we have an energy strategy and a policy that have we've been working on from day one. we believe it continues to show good results....
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david sanger analyzes how the obama administration has handled new foreign threats. in the great destroyer, barack obama's were on the republic, david limbaugh presents his thoughts on president obama's first term in office. a columnist for "the new york times" examines the political influence texas has on the united states in as texas goes. how the lone star state hijacked the american agenda. political columnist and lawyer linda hirschman recounts the history of the gay rights movement in victory, the triumphant day revolution. how he despised minority push back beat and download and change america for everyone. former member of the maryland house of delegates presents a memoir of his father, sergeant stryker. anthony bieber provides a comprehensive account of world war ii. in chris christie come the inside story of his rise to power, bob engle and michael simon explores the life and career of the new jersey governor. look for these titles and book stores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on book tv and booktv.org. >> here is a quick loo
david sanger analyzes how the obama administration has handled new foreign threats. in the great destroyer, barack obama's were on the republic, david limbaugh presents his thoughts on president obama's first term in office. a columnist for "the new york times" examines the political influence texas has on the united states in as texas goes. how the lone star state hijacked the american agenda. political columnist and lawyer linda hirschman recounts the history of the gay rights...
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and the obama administration has requested from congress a new $7 70 million fund that would be tied to concrete benchmarks for political and economic reforms. and i again, urge congress to move forward on this priority. but let me briefly just address the three parts of our strategy starting with security. the recent rites underscore the challenges of safe guarding public safety and free societies and reforming security forces. for decades, those forces presented regimes -- protected regime. now they're job is to protect citizens especially again the threat from violent extremist. for some time, al qaeda and the islamist and other terrorist groups have launch attacks and kidnaps from northern mally in to neighboring countries. they're seeking to extend the reach and the networks in multiple directions. we are using every stool we can to help our partners fight extremism and meet the security challenges. we recently embedded additional foreign service officers with regional expertise in to the u.s. africa command to better integrate our approach across the region diplomatics, develop
and the obama administration has requested from congress a new $7 70 million fund that would be tied to concrete benchmarks for political and economic reforms. and i again, urge congress to move forward on this priority. but let me briefly just address the three parts of our strategy starting with security. the recent rites underscore the challenges of safe guarding public safety and free societies and reforming security forces. for decades, those forces presented regimes -- protected regime....
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i think that the policy adopted by the obama administration in the past few months, beginning with president obama's speech in canberra in november, and now the new policy which says that the center of gravity of u.s. defense policy will be the south china sea, that it will resolve around contesting china's efforts to dominate the area, says that we're going to see a lot more confrontational sort of activity in that whole region. so i think that's a sign of worry. i think that there is also been an increasing efforts by china to dominate central asia and that's going to produce stress. i tell you though, what i worry about most and is deeply did he stressing to me is as the result of various decisions made by the united states and its allies, which not necessarily for bad reasons -- like the intervention in libya -- has led to a closer alliance between china and russia, and this is involving not just political collaboration but arms sales, energy deals, and a growing resistance to the united states on issues like iran and syria, and a kind of a hardening of the international environment whic
i think that the policy adopted by the obama administration in the past few months, beginning with president obama's speech in canberra in november, and now the new policy which says that the center of gravity of u.s. defense policy will be the south china sea, that it will resolve around contesting china's efforts to dominate the area, says that we're going to see a lot more confrontational sort of activity in that whole region. so i think that's a sign of worry. i think that there is also...
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indeed, the enthusiasm for the obama administration was, was very high, perhaps excessively high. i think there were maybe expectations that we had created that would have been hard to live up to in the terms of this glorious new chapter in transatlantic relationships in which we would disagree about nothing, and we would march together as in some past that never actually existed. so i think that we were warmly welcomed there the start, and the message that i conveyed to you just now we try today convey to our partners from the start, that we were absolutely sincere about wanting to work together in a mutually beneficial way and that we would listen, and that we would share leadership because we have the same interests and values. and so i guess it was pushing on an open door trying to articulate this message, and i think it's been reciprocated by our european partners. it goes happened in hand with the point you -- hand in hand with the point you made about dependence. i wouldn't use that word. i think it has been demonstrated that, um, that to deal with the tremendous challenges
indeed, the enthusiasm for the obama administration was, was very high, perhaps excessively high. i think there were maybe expectations that we had created that would have been hard to live up to in the terms of this glorious new chapter in transatlantic relationships in which we would disagree about nothing, and we would march together as in some past that never actually existed. so i think that we were warmly welcomed there the start, and the message that i conveyed to you just now we try...
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a i think the challenges with theo obama administration in the first term he had some of the wl worst advisers that one could thinnk about. and you have tim geithner t involved, you have larry summerd who believes women can't learn math among other things. in tu you have a rahm emanuel, mayor r of chicago hopefully he will doa better as ththe mayor of chicago that the white house chief of staff. chic those pageople push the presidet into something of a status quo to read what we are hopeful of, whatever he does he is 50 times better than mitt romney and we t hope he will do more. african american people have to advocate for what we want towe p readafcan am >> host: this e-mail from virginia and california. wnt. thinking back to your activist days when you ran for political office is this something you frm might consider now? >> caller: an for >> guest: no. things have changedce since 198. there's all kinds of things and1 while my private life is a lot f of fun, i probably wouldn't like to debate it. prob one of abmy dreams would be to e an investor but i told someone i don't know if i
a i think the challenges with theo obama administration in the first term he had some of the wl worst advisers that one could thinnk about. and you have tim geithner t involved, you have larry summerd who believes women can't learn math among other things. in tu you have a rahm emanuel, mayor r of chicago hopefully he will doa better as ththe mayor of chicago that the white house chief of staff. chic those pageople push the presidet into something of a status quo to read what we are hopeful of,...
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. >> i'll give real credit to the obama administration. they been very good on investment. president obama was the first democrat in 30 years without an open investments. why? because foreign direct investment to the u.s. creates jobs that are disproportionately export oriented, disproportionately manufacturing oriented, and our 50% more likely to be unionized. this is capital we should be fighting for. i think we need to approach in the second obama term with the second -- same degree with confidence going to the point michael me. i think the world agree to engage with us. angela merkel proposed the free trade agreement in her speech issue. i think we should pick up on that and go for it. there's a trans-pacific partnership being negotiated out in asia, chinese are not part of the negotiation but they follow it very, very closely. let's just proceed with confidence because i think people want us to. >> you mentioned china, thank goodness. can't have a discussion with out china. jonathan and i were in china this year. everywhere we went jonathan doggedly woodpaneled the chi
. >> i'll give real credit to the obama administration. they been very good on investment. president obama was the first democrat in 30 years without an open investments. why? because foreign direct investment to the u.s. creates jobs that are disproportionately export oriented, disproportionately manufacturing oriented, and our 50% more likely to be unionized. this is capital we should be fighting for. i think we need to approach in the second obama term with the second -- same degree...
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the obama administration's now reneging on the may 10th agreement. they're now reuping the demands for data exclusivity and patent extensions. vietnam is part of that negotiation, peru's part of that negotiation. you know, designed to effect very poor countries. and the new proposal the u.s. government has is called the team proposal, something on access to medicine. it's secret except if you're a drug company lobbyist, then you can be on a cleared advisory board, and you have access to that information. and they refuse to present the text that the u.s. is proposing on this to ordinary citizens and taxpayers. it's only available if you find yourself in one of these cleared advisory groups that the u.s. government has. and i had one other point, and that is that india recently issued a compulsory license for a cancer drug called nexavar. the drug was priced at $69,000 per year for cancer patients for kidney and liver cancer in india, a country -- and and recently had a per capita income of $1300 a year. the government said $69,000 a year in india was
the obama administration's now reneging on the may 10th agreement. they're now reuping the demands for data exclusivity and patent extensions. vietnam is part of that negotiation, peru's part of that negotiation. you know, designed to effect very poor countries. and the new proposal the u.s. government has is called the team proposal, something on access to medicine. it's secret except if you're a drug company lobbyist, then you can be on a cleared advisory board, and you have access to that...